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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Ode to a Useless Language
1. A Home
2. What Is Latin?
3. Which Latin?
4. A Divine Alphabet
5. Understanding Latin with Catullus
6. Cicero’s Star-Studded Sky
7. Ennius’s Ghost
8. Caesar, or the Mea sures of Reality
9. The Power of Clarity: Lucretius
10. The Meaning of Sex: Back to Catullus
11. Syntactic Goose Bumps, or Virgil’s Shivering Sentences
12. The Master of Diffraction, Tacitus, and Sallust’s Brevity
13. Ovid, or the End of Identity
14. Breathing and Creaking: Reflections on Livy
15. The Word Umbra: Virgil’s Eclogues
16. Seneca, or the Serenity of Saying It All
17. Deviances and Dental Care: Apuleius and Petronius
18. Brambles, Chasms, and Memories: Augustine’s Linguistic Reformation
19. The Duty of Self-Improvement: Juvenal and Satire
20. The Loneliness of Love: Propertius
21. More on Happiness: The Lesson of Horace
22. Conclusion as Exhortation: Study Latin!
Notes
Acknowledgments
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